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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Peters and Bergdahl
	Date:	7/21/2009 12:31:01 AM

-Interesting string of comments on this subject. Please let me add a few.
-PFC Bergdahl: I just watched the 28 min video. Sad. What he said goes way beyond what he should have said. Yet, ...he did not appear eager to collaborate; rather, he appeared reluctant. What we have here is a scared 23 yer old kid. Yes, he is a soldier. But once stripped form his unit, stripped of his weapons, stripped of his uniform, stripped of any ability to change his circumstances, he caved. I went through a lot of teh Army's escape and evasion courses. They are realistic and hard. Yet, I often wondered what I would have done if captured. You can't be sure until it happens. If this kid gets back, he will have a lot to answer for. Our job as a nation is first --to get him back.

-Ralph Peters: It just so happens I know Peters. He was not a close friend, just an acquaintance. However, we worked in some of the same units; had some of the same education and trainnig; worked on similar missions, --just not at the same time. Ralph's opinions and perspectives were always very individualistic, not often reflecting mainstream Army thinking. Some times this worked for him, at other times it did not. Most of what Peters said in his FOX presentation, in my opinion, does not reflect what most Army officers think of this situation.
-I would state that most Army personnel think that Bergdahl, in this video, has gone way beyond where he should have, but not as far as he could have. He is a scared young man who just wants to survive, and will do some things to achive that end , --but maybe not everything. There but for the grace.....